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GOSSIP OF fWf BLUE GRASS REGION W H Shelley Arrives at Lexington to Take TTp Duties of Racing Secretary Lexington Ky April 1 William H Shelley who put in the winter as presiding judge at Juarez arrived from Louisville this morning and began his duties as racing secretary of the Kentucky Associa ¬ tion for the spring meeting which is to open April 27 and continue eleven days He opened his office at the Clubhouse placed the order for badges and other printing and accomplished much in the way of detail preliminary to organizing for the work that is to be done during the ext four weeks weeksThe The weather yesterday was fine but rain fell this afternoon to the regret of the horsemen The time has arrived for the development of speed in the horses at the local track They have had a great deal of road and turf galloping during the winter and for the greater part are strong and muscular and ready to take the work that is now necessary to fit them for racing There were some tightening up gallops yesterday and today but nothing out of the ordinary ordinaryJohn John W May arrived at the Kentucky Associa ¬ tion track this morning from Charleston with eleven horses including Sea Cliff Polly Worth Little Waif and Zwingli Jockey McTaggart and the apprentice rider Arthur Cragin are with the stable I had a fair winter and am satisfied said Mr May My purpose in coining to Lexington before the close of the Charleston meeting is to rest my horses for the Kentucky season I will go to Nasrtiville this week to have Countless taken up and shipped here Mr May will have another addition to his stable in the shape of the twoyearold sister to Lens that Mickey Shannon recently took up for him j J W Wainwrights string will pass through here 1 tomorrow CharlestonJ enroute to Louisville from Charleston J S Ward and W J Young will ship their strings from Charleston to Lexington next week weekA A carload of thoroughbreds from Barney Schreib ers new farm at Scdalia Mo arrived here this morning Seven were broodmares and five wera young horses that are to be trained by Charley Brown at the local track They include the three yearold Baden and the twoyearolds Cain Chaser Harry Mclntyre Ortiz and Priwer La Rella the dam of Emperor William foaled a bay colt by Ban nockburn on the train The marc and foal are both In good condition Miss Spooner a young marc by Star Bjuby was injured in unloading and is now in a slingBefore sling Before the rain today there were several good moves the best by a twoyearold being three eighths in 38 by J N Camdcns Star Shoot Hin ¬ doo Rose gelding geldingWalter Walter Scofleld nephew of Will and Henry Mc Daniel arrived here yesterday from Juarez and will put in the spring on the Kentucky tracks with his uncle Will Henry McDanicl will not come to Ken ¬ tucky this spring he having shipped his horses to Coeur dAlene In a car that is to leave here for Coeur dAlene Wednesday in charge of Luther Carr there will be ten horses including seven for W H Fizer two for Earl Llnnell and George C Ben ¬ netts Loween for Henry McDauiel The seven for Mr Fizer have been in the caro of John Rodegap but he does not know the pedigrees of three of the threeyearolds Brando and Wadsworth II are two of the threeyearolds The former is a brother to Friend Harry and a halfbrother to Pink Coat and the latter is by Wadsworth out of the speedy mare Gold Rose that was owned by Dominic OMalley of New Orleans Two twoyearolds are a colt by Marta Santa Sewing Girl and a filly by Pink Coat Foundling FoundlingMr Mr Scofleld says there was vast improvement in the racing at Juarez the past winter as compared with former meetings It will be the spot for winter sport said he if the Mexicans will stop that war they have been having and let Americans feel like they are not liable to be hit by a stray bullet Speaking of the horses that came to Kentucky from Juarez Mr Scolield said There were only fortytwo of them but Hawthorn was among them and he in my opinion counts for as much as all the others There is a real oldfash ¬ ioned eend to eend race horse Hes Kentucky bred you know being by Hastings White Thorn and from the Bclmont Nursery Stud a few miles out ffom here on the pike Hes none of the winter popup summer fadeaway variety they breed down in Texas and the fellow that goes to figuring on him for that sort just because he happened to race at Juarez Is going to be badly fooled Mark what I say Hawthorn will make every Kentuckytrained or Charlestonraced twoyearold that hooks up with him wish he was back in the stall before they reach the finish He is justly entitled to the unbeaten record be has for his five starts and hell have more brackets to his credit than any other two yearold rightCol at the end of the year If he stays right Col Milton Young vicechairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission was among the Sunday morning visitors to the course He has five horses In John Rodegaps string and it was the first time that he had seen them canter this season John Rodegap has in his barn a fouryearold called Rolling Stone that has never been to the post but is promising He is by Hermence Ruction and is a halfbrother to Moquctte He is one of the best looking horses at the track and he handles himself in a manner that indicates that lie will be there with the goods to deliver when called upon Hazel Burke Is still in this barn and has wintered well Several persons tried to buy her the past winter but they were not willing to come to the figure of the owner which was about 3000 3000T T C McDowell whose horses are at Douglas Park came up from Louisville Sunday and was at the track for an hour or so He says The Manager and famouslyW all others in his barn are doing famously W E Oots will send in three or four horses to tho track this week that have been galloping over the grass at bis farm all winter
